Compassion Forgiveness Restoration

It's funny-I've spent the last few hours avoiding writing this post.
I read something yesterday that was disturbing, which prompted this.
A man was caught with child pornography on his computer.
The man worked in government.
The man committed suicide after leaving a measured, completely rational suicide note.
He claimed that he had been abused as a child, which scarred him emotionally.
As an adult he was functional, detail oriented, one who was always in control.
But when he first saw child pornography, as he wrote in his suicide note, he "didn't turn away."
Suddenly he was not in control anymore. And it destroyed him.

Why I am posting about this? That note.
He explained clearly what had happened to him, what he had done, that he regretted his actions...
and that at the next opportunity he was going to kill himself.
Functional. In control. Rational. Suicide.

Here's the thing-no matter how black our sins, they CAN be forgiven.
God forgives sinners. Jesus Christ came to make that Salvation possible.
Even for pedophiles.
For anyone haunted by guilt (which means all of us, as we are all guilty of something) it need not destroy you..

I once knew an assistant Pastor who was later discovered to be a pedophile. He ran away, and I had promised that if I ever saw him again, that I would give him a beating.
That is all over. Now I'm more of the forgiving type, as God has forgiven me for so much.
No sin is greater than the Grace of God. If you are living with a secret hurt, if you have carried some issue inside for a lifetime which makes you feel unworthy of God's forgiveness...it's been paid for by Jesus Christ, and there is Forgiveness available for you.